USN-2739-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

freetype vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 15.04

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in FreeType.

Software Description

freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details

It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed
font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font
file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or hang, resulting in
a denial of service, or possibly expose uninitialized memory.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: